The United States and China huddled Thursday for key talks on trade disputes, clean energy and climate change less than three weeks before a visit by US President Barack Obama. US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Agri ...

WASHINGTON — Memo to Democrats: You will be defined by President Obama whether you like it or not, so you might as well embrace him for the benefits he can bring you. Memo to Republicans: Talk a right-wing game in your ideological magazines and at your tea parties if that makes you happy. But to win elections, your candidates had better look like middle-of-the-road problem-solvers. Those are the two outstanding lessons from the campaigns for next Tuesday’s governors’ races in New J

Shocka! There appears to be “Daylight” between America Israel on Iran IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi was in Germany this week speaking at a Holocaust remembrance memorial, he gave an inspired speech. There are a number of reasons to examine the text; Ashkenazi as head of the IDF is probably the 3rd most powerful man in Israel. Ashkenazi is intensely popular, trusted  respected by an Israeli public which will support his judgment. Ashkenazi is intensely popular, trusted 

In terms of traffic, Twitter is becoming a hybrid of Digg (of some years back) and StumbleUpon. By Digg I mean that thousands of blogs are now including “Tweet this” buttons (just like they were with “Digg It” buttons) and like StumbleUpon, Twitter has the ability to send thousands of visitors in a short period of time. My friend Gyutae managed to leverage over 35,000 hits in two weeks and I know blogs like ours have over 250,000 visitors per month from the service. That’s a lot of traffic.

1. Happy 123rd birthday, Lady Liberty.Merci beaucoup, France.GOOD.2. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Pakistan: “We are turning the page on what has been for the past several years primarily a security, anti-terrorist agenda… Maybe some in your country will say, No, I really didn’t have a good opinion (of the U.S.) before; I thought it was all about, ‘Are you going to be with us or against us on the war on terrorism.’ But this is a new day.”So, I guess President Bush did make the world more